St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-25
Re Says Ks wouldn't Contribute To-
wards Paying the Salary Of
Such a Minister.
The Training School Turns Ont Thirty
Young Ladies Who Become
Mind Trainers.
A Bonanza Said to Have Been Struck
By st. Paul Capitalists in
Colorado.
FIGHTS HIGH LICENSE.
Sam Small Says He Has No Use
for a Minister Who Favors 1t.

Yesterday was great day in the his
tory of Re1i Rock. The crowd was
larger than at any time since last Sun
day. and the vast pavilion was filled at
every one of the three sermons. Sam
Jones delivered the morning sermon
from the text: Rejoice ever more.
Pray without ceaSing. In everything
give thanks"
1--WE have every kind of meeting
here said he. There's the rOugh-aRd-
ready, Stand-up-and-be-knO
style, run by myself; then there is the
elegant style, run by Brother Small {;
then there's the Salvation Army style.
Why. the man that can't get religion
here is III a bad way, amt he?
When SfellOw gets stuck up cut down
his rationS. If you give Methodist
minister much money he'll get stuck up.
reckon this is what you're afraid of in
this state. a minister going around on
a half-fare ticket and buying things 10
per cent. cheaper because he's a minis
ter, looks to me as though he was sorter
trying to apologize for his poverty.
Now. brethren, let's have the fourth
section of the interstate commerce law
make men out of us. Don'tyou buy any
more half fare tickets
I'VE wont; the state law wont
let u.s." cried the ministers i'll chorus
''I'd rather take care of whole state of
people than of an old bundle of selfish
ness like you. You're not only a
nuisance to yourself, but nuisance to
your wife and children, too. Some peO-
pie are running on final perseverance.
l tell you any one that's got Straddled
on that doctrine is in a bad way. It's
good doctrine when you've got legs
to stand on; but fellows in bad way
who is sitting down on that doctrine
waiting for the devil to come along. To
get God to answer your prayers you've
got to have something to stand on. l
know woman who gave her old three
times turned dress to poor sister, and
then said she'd something to stand on.
She hadn't. That was treasure laid up
in Heaven, and won't she look pale
racking around up there in that old
dress?
A HIGH LICENSE SERMON.
Sam Small delivered the afternoon
sermon, taking as his text L. Cor ill.,, 4;
''For other foundation can no man lay
than that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ"
I'VE are the architects of our own de-
velopment," said he. lone of the most
important missions of the gospel is to
make men out of US. From man, the
mere animal, the mere cap stone of the
material world, God develops man the
Son of God. The logical result of man
left to his own development is worship
of himself and not of God. The metal
ages of Rome and Greece were as bril-
liant in their times as our civilization,
but they never produced man who
could stand on the lowest rung of the
Christian ladder. Brethren, if we are
to go to heaven we must diligently set
about our preparation for its citizen
ship. We are beginning to see the results
in this country of throwing the gates of
our land too wide open and allowing
men of every nation to come in without
lnquiring into their character or morals.
The first note of alarm was sounded
when that bomb was thrown into the
crowd on Hay market square, Chicago.
There is no place of second probation,
no dress chamber, no place where you
can stop and erase the evil that has
crept into your system. God has said
that here and now is the place to build
that character which shall last for time
and eternity. The text tells us where
we are to build that foundation. No
other foundation can be laid except in
the word of God. There isn't a charac-
ter, however pure and comedy it may
seem, there is not character grounded
on other than Jesus Christ that is not an
imperfect character. The gambler does
his business according to Hoyle
because he is, or rather was
gambling until revised by minister
pleinpotentiary Of the United States to
Great Britain. who dishonored the
honorable record made in the war by
becoming the authority On draw poker.
And tell you when men like Beaure-
gard and Early can lend themselves to
turning lottery wheel. and man like
Gen. Schenck can waste his high talents
at the poker table, / don't want to be led
by any of them.
The Christian will never be neutral Oh
prohibition. A man neutral on that
question
IS A COWARD,
and no Christian can be a coward. No
Christian will ever be high license
man. / say again no man, if this book
be true Qaying his hand on the Bible),
and he has laid his foundation on it, can
be a high license man. 1t is a league
with the devil to vote for such law.
High license simply means what it would
if a woman would say my virtue is
worth 500. It's worth more than that
who sells hers for dollar. She's sell
ing out, but she's selling out dear. How
easy it is to calm our conscience and
steep our cupidity in some evil because
we say it is necessary evil. Brother,
evils on earth helps going to he a neceS-
sary evil for you. Gods prepared
heaven for you, but if you won't go
there, then necessary evils you have
tolerated here will land you in hell. I
wouldn't belong to church, so help me
God, that's anything to do with high
license. The minister who's in favor of
high license is disgrace and blot OH
humanity. He's fit for nothing but a free
lunch hummer around a tenth-rate
saloon. I'd never give such minister
dollar toward his salary. I'd tell
him to go to the rbarkeepers, his
butter. / may be treading OH some
peoples toes, but don't care; haven't
any respect for any minister or member
of the church of Jesus Christ who's in
favor of high license. Itmay be
A CONVENIENT DOCTRINE
for man who derives his living from
liquor; it may be convenient for man
who's too Stingy to pay for the whisky
to get drunk; but | say to you that no
greater wrong was ever inflicted OH the
people of this state. 1t is a blot, a
blight and dishonor on the legislation
OF Minnesota. If ran paper in these
cities would gather accounts of every
poor devil that violated the laws, got
drunk and deserted his family, and
every man who committed any crime.
and label them in black letters, "Argu-
ments for high license" Who's fool
enough to suppose there's less liquor
going to be drunk because the license
is $1,000 than was drunk when it
was $50 or $500? The idiocy of
it is too plain to be commented on. |
say to you, my brethren, that the records
of the coming year will show that it was
snare and delusion to permit that
high license bill to- go on the statute
a.